Sans logique
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"Sans logique" is a 1988
song recorded by French
singer-songwriter
Mylène Farmer
. It was released on 20 February 1989 as the fourth and last single from her second studio album Ainsi soit je...
. The song deals with schizophrenia
, death, love and religion and was accompanied by a cinematic video which shows a human corrida
. The single became a top ten hit in France.
" and "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
" and the huge sales of the parent album Ainsi soit je...
, Farmer decided to release "Sans logique" as the fourth and last single from the album as she was preparing her first concert tour through France, Belgium and Switzerland. The B-side of the single, "Dernier Sourire", is a previously unavailable song about the death of a relative (though a live version of the cover "Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes", originally sung by Marie Laforêt
, was first scheduled as the B-side).
"Sans logique" was actually recorded twice due to technical problems in the studio. The sentence "this is a blank formatted disket", which can be heard in the introduction of the song, refers to this problem and was kept in the finished product. "Sans logique" was widely played on French radio during the year of its release was one of the top ten songs that yielded the most copyright royalties to the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
in 1989.
Shortly after the single's release, the European Workers Party
used a photo from the video, where Farmer has white eyes and the horns on her head, with the subtitle "These artists who promote drugs and the ugliness". Farmer sued the secretary of the party, Jacques Cheminade
, accusing him of having used her image without her consent and have made inappropriate and abusive remarks towards her. The Tribunal de Grande Instance
of Paris
found in Farmer's favour.
or dissociative identity disorder
, which lives in the character that Farmer portrays, and also makes reference to religious concepts (angels and Satan
) to explore the two opposite sides of one person. The song uses obsolete words from 18th Century language. The calculating Marquise de Mertreuil (a character in the French epistolary novel
Les Liaisons dangereuses
), as both angelic as diabolical according to her own interests, seems to be evoked in the lyrics. The psychologist Hugues Royer said the lyrics, as well as the music video, show that "the identity, the sense of unity to achieve, remains problematic".
who has also wrote the screenplay with Gilles Laurent. It was a Requiem Publishing production, filmed over the course of three days at a studio in Arpajon
in the Île-de-France
région, France
, where the video for "Que mon cœur lâche
" was also shot three years later. It cost around 200,000 euros to make, largely due to Boutonnat importing two tons of earth and a large waxed cloth that was used to represent the sky. The video concept was inspired by Francisco Goya
's painting El Aquelarre which portrays a human corrida
, and features various people including a torero (played by Lila Dahli who also appeared in the video for Farmer's next single, "À quoi je sers...
"'). Due to its graphic, violent content, the video for "Sans logigue" was edited by some television channels for broadcast. The unedited version was released on Farmer's various video clips compilations.
, her lover puts a sword in her back. The man, believing the "bull" to be defeated, turns to his audience and celebrates his victory, and the gypsies cheer him and throw coins. Then, with her eyes rolled upwards and seemingly possessed by a demonic spirit, Farmer charges one last time and impales her lover with the iron horns on her head, fatally injuring him. While she becomes herself again, she attends to her dying lover, as it begins raining and the crowd of Gypsies disperse after their entertainment. The video ends with Farmer crying a tear of blood.
According to Instant-Mag, "Sans Logique" is without a doubt "one of the most beautiful videos of the singer: percussive images, multiple references, many interpretation, rich symbolism". It condenses "the strong themes of the filmmaker Luis Buñuel
", particularly the social struggle. Like Goya's painting, the video "tackles the fundamental perversion of men; reality is described as obsessive and mixes dreams and nightmares". It is "built as an ode
to the Spanish
forbidden culture, in which mix the themes of childhood and social corruption". "The old characters that form the audience [in the video] represent affluent people, the guarantors of moral order, the partners of moral conformism". According to French magazine Top 50, the video manages to "marry dead, mournful, tragedy with music for discothèques", "by dint of symbols, sophisticated decors and subtle union of beauty and unhealthy." Biographer Bernard Violet said this video is "by far the most inventive" ever made by Boutonnat.
In this video, the singer shows that "she does not dating relationships without violence". Because of her pain, Farmer, who was innocent and naive at the beginning of the video, became then corrupted and began to kill. She "kills her lover to not be killed. The horns are a symbol of the bull (power, fertility and virile strength) granted to a woman, but also that of the Devil
who takes possession of Farmer. Helpless, she is witness to the lover's agony, overwhelmed and very human". There are also several references to sexuality
(the snake
in the Garden of Eden
, symbolism of the bullfight in the Spanish culture
). The themes of love and death are also present in the video. For biographer Violet, all the people belong to the same community, the bullfighter was unfaithful by impregnating a pregnant woman seen in the video, and Farmer "wears horns" literally as she has been deceived by her lover, and ultimately takes revenge by killing him.
Belgian writer and Farmer's friend Amélie Nothomb
, spoke of this video in an excerpt from her 1997 book Attentat, with her character Ethel.
In France
, the single charted for fifteen weeks on the French Top 50, from 18 March to 1 July 1989. It debuted at number 30 and reached its peaked position, number ten, five weeks later, spending a total of eleven weeks in the top twenty. Its sales were somewhat disappointing in comparison with the great success of two of the other three previous singles, "Sans contrefaçon
" and "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
".
: Avis de recherche (24 February and 12 May), La Une est à vous (11 March), Jacky show (18 March), Sacrée Soirée (22 March). Farmer, nominated for the Victoires de la musique
, has won the title "Best female performer of the year", but refused to sing "Sans logique", which was very criticized by the media. For this song, the singer used for the first time a dynamic choreography
that she named "the technical of mirror", because she has created it only by looking at herself in a mirror
.
"Sans logique" was only performed during the 1989 tour
. Farmer then wore black veils, a white collar and small white socks and performed a collective choreography inspired by the 18th century, composed of large gestures and these movements become smaller as if Farmer was bound by twine. When the music began, Farmer curtseyed several times, and the phrase "This is a blank formated disket" was repeated throughout the song. About the middle of the song, the singer hit the ground with her microphone and got up again immediately.
". After being chosen instead of "Que mon cœur lâche
" to feature on the 1992 album Urgence - 27 artistes pour la recherche contre le SIDA, the song was especially re-recorded in a new version, becoming the anthem of people who come at the end of life and appeared to be as "a kind of cruel poem about the end of life and the injustice of death which blows too quickly our candles". The song was generally well received, as stated by the author Erwan Chuberre who provides in one of his books positive critics from fans.
Farmer performed the song first on 1 November 1989 on French television show Sacrée Soirée on TF1
. It was originally scheduled to be performed during the 1989 tour, but it was eventually replaced by "Puisque...". The song was sung during the Mylenium Tour
; when performing on stage, Farmer wore a white transparent dress with a plunging neckline in the back, a sailing on the shoulders, shoes with high heels, and a white large necklace. There is no choreography, and when she sang for the second time the first verse at the end of the song, she began to cry; she was only accompanied by the piano. In 2000, this live version was the second track of the CD single
for "Dessine-moi un mouton". "Dernier Sourire" was covered by Michał Kwiatkowski
on a weekly program of Star Academy France
, in 2003, but his version was not released as a single.
1988 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....
song recorded by French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer, , born Marie-Hélène Jeanne Gautier, , , is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author....
. It was released on 20 February 1989 as the fourth and last single from her second studio album Ainsi soit je...
Ainsi Soit Je...
Ainsi Soit Je... is the second album by Mylène Farmer, released in April 1988. It contains the hit singles "Sans contrefaçon", "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" and "Sans logique"...
. The song deals with schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
, death, love and religion and was accompanied by a cinematic video which shows a human corrida
Bullfighting
Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...
. The single became a top ten hit in France.
Background and writing
After the successful songs "Sans contrefaçonSans contrefaçon
"Sans contrefaçon" is a 1987 song recorded by French artist Mylène Farmer. It was released on 16 October 1987 as the first single from her second studio album, Ainsi soit je.... It was a big hit in 1987 and is one of her three best-selling singles. It became a very popular song in France over the...
" and "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
"Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" is a 1988 synthpop song by the French artist Mylène Farmer. Third single from her second studio album Ainsi soit je..., it was released on 12 September 1988. Very provocative, the song deals with sodomy and enjoys a very long music video which contains sexual and...
" and the huge sales of the parent album Ainsi soit je...
Ainsi Soit Je...
Ainsi Soit Je... is the second album by Mylène Farmer, released in April 1988. It contains the hit singles "Sans contrefaçon", "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" and "Sans logique"...
, Farmer decided to release "Sans logique" as the fourth and last single from the album as she was preparing her first concert tour through France, Belgium and Switzerland. The B-side of the single, "Dernier Sourire", is a previously unavailable song about the death of a relative (though a live version of the cover "Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes", originally sung by Marie Laforêt
Marie Laforêt
Marie Laforêt is a French singer and actress, .In 1978 she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and took out Swiss nationality.-The sources of her birth name:...
, was first scheduled as the B-side).
"Sans logique" was actually recorded twice due to technical problems in the studio. The sentence "this is a blank formatted disket", which can be heard in the introduction of the song, refers to this problem and was kept in the finished product. "Sans logique" was widely played on French radio during the year of its release was one of the top ten songs that yielded the most copyright royalties to the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers and music publishers.-History:...
in 1989.
Shortly after the single's release, the European Workers Party
European Workers Party
The European Workers' Party is a very small political party in Sweden without parliamentary representation. The party is the Swedish section of the LaRouche Movement.-History:...
used a photo from the video, where Farmer has white eyes and the horns on her head, with the subtitle "These artists who promote drugs and the ugliness". Farmer sued the secretary of the party, Jacques Cheminade
Jacques Cheminade
Jacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a French political activist. He is associated with the LaRouche movement, an international network of groups led by the American political activist, Lyndon LaRouche. He was a candidate for the French presidential election, 1995...
, accusing him of having used her image without her consent and have made inappropriate and abusive remarks towards her. The Tribunal de Grande Instance
Court
A court is a form of tribunal, often a governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law...
of Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
found in Farmer's favour.
Lyrics and music
The song deals with a kind of schizophreniaSchizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
or dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis and describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities , each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment....
, which lives in the character that Farmer portrays, and also makes reference to religious concepts (angels and Satan
Satan
Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
) to explore the two opposite sides of one person. The song uses obsolete words from 18th Century language. The calculating Marquise de Mertreuil (a character in the French epistolary novel
Epistolary novel
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use...
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses is a French epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782....
), as both angelic as diabolical according to her own interests, seems to be evoked in the lyrics. The psychologist Hugues Royer said the lyrics, as well as the music video, show that "the identity, the sense of unity to achieve, remains problematic".
Music video
Production
The video (5:37) was directed by Laurent BoutonnatLaurent Boutonnat
Laurent Pierre Marie Boutonnat is a French composer and film and music video director, best known as the songwriting partner of Mylène Farmer and the director of moody, provocative and literature-inspired music videos.- Career :...
who has also wrote the screenplay with Gilles Laurent. It was a Requiem Publishing production, filmed over the course of three days at a studio in Arpajon
Arpajon
Arpajon is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.Seat of the canton, the commune is located south of Paris, accessible by the N20, and to in the north of Étampes...
in the Île-de-France
Île-de-France (région)
Île-de-France is the wealthiest and most populated of the twenty-two administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area....
région, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where the video for "Que mon cœur lâche
Que mon cœur lâche
"Que mon cœur lâche" is a 1992 song recorded by the French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. The single was released on 23 November 1992 to promote Farmer's compilation album Dance Remixes. Farmer also recorded an English language version of the track, entitled "My Soul Is Slashed" which was...
" was also shot three years later. It cost around 200,000 euros to make, largely due to Boutonnat importing two tons of earth and a large waxed cloth that was used to represent the sky. The video concept was inspired by Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...
's painting El Aquelarre which portrays a human corrida
Bullfighting
Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...
, and features various people including a torero (played by Lila Dahli who also appeared in the video for Farmer's next single, "À quoi je sers...
À quoi je sers...
"À quoi je sers..." is a 1989 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. The single was a new song when it was released in July 1989, being not available on Farmer's studio albums, but only in a live version on En Concert...
"'). Due to its graphic, violent content, the video for "Sans logigue" was edited by some television channels for broadcast. The unedited version was released on Farmer's various video clips compilations.
Plot
The video begins with Farmer and her lover sat in the middle of a desolate, barren landscape on a grim cloudy day. As a snake sliters nearby, the pair cut their palms and rub their hands together to mix their blood. A little girl picks up a statue of Christ found in the mud and sticks it on a cross. Then several Gypsies, dressed in black clothes and veils, come to sit on a bench to watch a human bullfight. Farmer plays the "bull", as her hands are tied behind her back and iron horns are put on her head, and is thus forced to fight a torero who is her lover. The men take off their jackets and behave like toreros, and as Farmer runs through their coats like a raging bullBull
Bull usually refers to an uncastrated adult male bovine.Bull may also refer to:-Entertainment:* Bull , an original show on the TNT Network* "Bull" , an episode of television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation...
, her lover puts a sword in her back. The man, believing the "bull" to be defeated, turns to his audience and celebrates his victory, and the gypsies cheer him and throw coins. Then, with her eyes rolled upwards and seemingly possessed by a demonic spirit, Farmer charges one last time and impales her lover with the iron horns on her head, fatally injuring him. While she becomes herself again, she attends to her dying lover, as it begins raining and the crowd of Gypsies disperse after their entertainment. The video ends with Farmer crying a tear of blood.
Influence, interpretation and reception
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
", particularly the social struggle. Like Goya's painting, the video "tackles the fundamental perversion of men; reality is described as obsessive and mixes dreams and nightmares". It is "built as an ode
Ode
Ode is a type of lyrical verse. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist...
to the Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
forbidden culture, in which mix the themes of childhood and social corruption". "The old characters that form the audience [in the video] represent affluent people, the guarantors of moral order, the partners of moral conformism". According to French magazine Top 50, the video manages to "marry dead, mournful, tragedy with music for discothèques", "by dint of symbols, sophisticated decors and subtle union of beauty and unhealthy." Biographer Bernard Violet said this video is "by far the most inventive" ever made by Boutonnat.
In this video, the singer shows that "she does not dating relationships without violence". Because of her pain, Farmer, who was innocent and naive at the beginning of the video, became then corrupted and began to kill. She "kills her lover to not be killed. The horns are a symbol of the bull (power, fertility and virile strength) granted to a woman, but also that of the Devil
Devil
The Devil is believed in many religions and cultures to be a powerful, supernatural entity that is the personification of evil and the enemy of God and humankind. The nature of the role varies greatly...
who takes possession of Farmer. Helpless, she is witness to the lover's agony, overwhelmed and very human". There are also several references to sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
(the snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
in the Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is in the Bible's Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, lived after they were created by God. Literally, the Bible speaks about a garden in Eden...
, symbolism of the bullfight in the Spanish culture
Culture of Spain
The culture of Spain is based on a variety of influences.The Visigothic Kingdom left a sense of a united Christian Hispania that was going to be welded in the Reconquista. Muslim influences were strong during the period of 711 AD to the 15th century, especially linguistically...
). The themes of love and death are also present in the video. For biographer Violet, all the people belong to the same community, the bullfighter was unfaithful by impregnating a pregnant woman seen in the video, and Farmer "wears horns" literally as she has been deceived by her lover, and ultimately takes revenge by killing him.
Belgian writer and Farmer's friend Amélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French.- Biography :Amélie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old, and then subsequently lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, Coventry and Laos...
, spoke of this video in an excerpt from her 1997 book Attentat, with her character Ethel.
Critical reception
France Soir considered that "Sans logique" had "its weight of synthetic sulfur" and that the words had "a preciousness from another era".In France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, the single charted for fifteen weeks on the French Top 50, from 18 March to 1 July 1989. It debuted at number 30 and reached its peaked position, number ten, five weeks later, spending a total of eleven weeks in the top twenty. Its sales were somewhat disappointing in comparison with the great success of two of the other three previous singles, "Sans contrefaçon
Sans contrefaçon
"Sans contrefaçon" is a 1987 song recorded by French artist Mylène Farmer. It was released on 16 October 1987 as the first single from her second studio album, Ainsi soit je.... It was a big hit in 1987 and is one of her three best-selling singles. It became a very popular song in France over the...
" and "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
"Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" is a 1988 synthpop song by the French artist Mylène Farmer. Third single from her second studio album Ainsi soit je..., it was released on 12 September 1988. Very provocative, the song deals with sodomy and enjoys a very long music video which contains sexual and...
".
Promotion and live performances
Farmer performed "Sans logique" five times in four television shows in 1989, all on TF1TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...
: Avis de recherche (24 February and 12 May), La Une est à vous (11 March), Jacky show (18 March), Sacrée Soirée (22 March). Farmer, nominated for the Victoires de la musique
Victoires de la Musique
Victoires de la musique , is an annual French award ceremony that recognizes the best musical artists of the year.- Male artist of the year :*1985 : Michel Jonasz*1986 : Jean-Jacques Goldman*1987 : Johnny Hallyday...
, has won the title "Best female performer of the year", but refused to sing "Sans logique", which was very criticized by the media. For this song, the singer used for the first time a dynamic choreography
Choreography
Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...
that she named "the technical of mirror", because she has created it only by looking at herself in a mirror
Mirror
A mirror is an object that reflects light or sound in a way that preserves much of its original quality prior to its contact with the mirror. Some mirrors also filter out some wavelengths, while preserving other wavelengths in the reflection...
.
"Sans logique" was only performed during the 1989 tour
Mylène Farmer en concert
Mylène Farmer en concert is Mylène Farmer's 1989 concert tour in support of her second studio album, Ainsi soit je.... It was the first tour of the singer.- Introduction :...
. Farmer then wore black veils, a white collar and small white socks and performed a collective choreography inspired by the 18th century, composed of large gestures and these movements become smaller as if Farmer was bound by twine. When the music began, Farmer curtseyed several times, and the phrase "This is a blank formated disket" was repeated throughout the song. About the middle of the song, the singer hit the ground with her microphone and got up again immediately.
B-side: "Dernier Sourire"
The vinyl's B-side contains a new song, "Dernier Sourire", which is very sad. This moving song tackles the theme of the disappearance of a loved one. With simple words, Farmer evokes the passage of the state of living to that of death through a description an ill-person in the process of dying in a hospital room, and the injustice felt in this kind of situation. This song was probably composed for Max Gautier, Farmer's father, who died on 11 July 1986, and in the lyrics she tells him some things she had not had time to say when he was alive. About its structure, the song has "a classic accompaniment, a simple melody and no refrainRefrain
A refrain is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song...
". After being chosen instead of "Que mon cœur lâche
Que mon cœur lâche
"Que mon cœur lâche" is a 1992 song recorded by the French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. The single was released on 23 November 1992 to promote Farmer's compilation album Dance Remixes. Farmer also recorded an English language version of the track, entitled "My Soul Is Slashed" which was...
" to feature on the 1992 album Urgence - 27 artistes pour la recherche contre le SIDA, the song was especially re-recorded in a new version, becoming the anthem of people who come at the end of life and appeared to be as "a kind of cruel poem about the end of life and the injustice of death which blows too quickly our candles". The song was generally well received, as stated by the author Erwan Chuberre who provides in one of his books positive critics from fans.
Farmer performed the song first on 1 November 1989 on French television show Sacrée Soirée on TF1
TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...
. It was originally scheduled to be performed during the 1989 tour, but it was eventually replaced by "Puisque...". The song was sung during the Mylenium Tour
Mylenium Tour (tour)
Mylenium Tour is Mylène Farmer's 1999-2000 concert tour in support of her fifth studio album, Innamoramento.-Critical reception and commercial success:...
; when performing on stage, Farmer wore a white transparent dress with a plunging neckline in the back, a sailing on the shoulders, shoes with high heels, and a white large necklace. There is no choreography, and when she sang for the second time the first verse at the end of the song, she began to cry; she was only accompanied by the piano. In 2000, this live version was the second track of the CD single
CD single
A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...
for "Dessine-moi un mouton". "Dernier Sourire" was covered by Michał Kwiatkowski
Michal (singer)
Michał Kwiatkowski is a Polish singer. In France, he is better known as Michal.Kwiatkowski was born and raised in Gorzów Wielkopolski. In 2001, Michał won a Polish karaoke show Szansa na sukces . After this success, he left Poland and started his studies in France...
on a weekly program of Star Academy France
Star Academy France
Star Academy was a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol, based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It was broadcast on TF1...
, in 2003, but his version was not released as a single.
Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of single releases of "Sans logique":- 7" single - France
- 7" maxi / CD maxi - France
- 7" maxi - Promo - France
- 7" single - Canada
- Digital download (since 2005)
Release history
| Date | Label | Region | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 February 1989 | Polydor | France, Canada | 7" single | 871 646-7 |
| 7" maxi | 871 647-1 | |||
| France | CD maxi | 871 647-2 | ||
| 7" single - Promo | 6863 377 |
Official versions
| Version | Length | Album | Remixed by | Year | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Sans logique" | |||||
| Album version | 4:30 | Ainsi soit je... Ainsi Soit Je... Ainsi Soit Je... is the second album by Mylène Farmer, released in April 1988. It contains the hit singles "Sans contrefaçon", "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" and "Sans logique"... |
— | 1988 | See the previous sections |
| Logical single mix | 4:00 | — | Laurent Boutonnat | 1989 | A refrain is deleted at the end of the song. |
| Classical version | 4:00 | — | Laurent Boutonnat | 1989 | This version brings to the fore the Farmer's voice on flights of violin Violin The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello.... s. After two minutes, drum Drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a... s sounds can be heard. |
| Illogical club remix | 7:11 | Dance Remixes Dance Remixes Dance Remixes is the first remix album by Mylène Farmer, released on November 23, 1992.- Background, writing and release :This album was made to make the fans wait until the following album, postponed because of the Giorgino 's shooting.... |
Laurent Boutonnat | 1989 | This is a dance remix. The phrase "This is a blank formatted disket" is mixed with a voice of a man. |
| Music video | 5:37 | Les Clips Vol. III Les Clips Vol. III Les Clips Vol. III is a VHS recorded by the French singer Mylène Farmer, containing all the singer's videoclips from 1989 to 1990. It was released in March 1990 in France.... , Music Videos I Music Videos I Music Videos I is a VHS / DVD recorded by the French singer Mylène Farmer, containing all the singer's videoclips from 1985 to 1992. It was released in April 1997 in France.... |
— | 1989 | |
| Live version (recorded in 1989) | 5:06 | En Concert | — | 1989 | The phrase "This is a blank formatted disket" is repeated during all the song. |
| Album version | 4:02 | Les Mots | Laurent Boutonnat | 2001 | This is a remastered version. |
| "Dernier sourire" | |||||
| Studio version | 5:18 | — | — | 1988 | This version, the longest, ends with the sound of a heart beating more slowly and eventually stopping. In the last verse, Farmer made a grammar mistake in French-language (only in this version), saying "La couteau dans mon plaie", while it should have been said: "Le couteau dans ma plaie". |
| Album version | 4:00 | Urgence - 27 artistes pour la recherche contre le SIDA | — | 1992 | The acoustic version is accompanied by a piano Piano The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal... and a guitar Guitar The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... . The musical passage at the end is deleted. |
| Live version (recorded in 2000) | 4:52 | Mylenium Tour Mylenium Tour Mylènium Tour is the third live album by Mylène Farmer, released on December 5, 2000.-Background:After having ending her third successful tour whose last shows were held in Russia on March 7, 2000, Farmer rested, and then decided to release an album and a DVD retracing her concert... |
— | 2000 | This performance is moving. |
Credits and personnel
These are the credits and the personnel as they appear on the back of the single:- Mylène Farmer – lyrics
- Laurent Boutonnat – music
- Bertrand Le Page / Toutankhamon – editions
- Polydor – recording company
- Marianne Rosentiehl – photo
Charts and sales
| Chart (1989) | Peak position |
Physical sales |
|---|---|---|
| French SNEP Singles Chart | 10 | 250,000 |